paygo

Most of us who have been around for a while understand that politicians running for office tell us what we want to hear and our president was no exception to the rule when he was a candidate. In spite of this the president said the reason he did not call the CEO of BP is because



I have not spoken to him directly – and here’s the reason: because my experience is when you talk to a guy like a BP CEO, he’s going to say all the right things to me.



Here is one example from the campaign and when he was in office



Jan 30,2010

By Anne E. Kornblut
Pledging to curb federal budget deficits, President Obama used his weekly radio address Saturday to praise the Senate's passage of a measure requiring that increased spending be offset with cuts and to tout his proposed freeze on non-discretionary budget spending. The idea is called pay as you go or paygo.



The problem is that all the government has to do is to declare an emergency and they can bypass paygo



Pay-go gets passed, then it gets bypassed

By Walter Alarkon - 02/16/10 09:33 PM ET

The ink is barely dry on the pay-as-you-go law, and Democrats are seeking to bypass it to enact parts of their job-creation agenda.

Democratic leaders said extensions of unemployment insurance and COBRA healthcare benefits should be emergency spending that isn’t subject to the pay-as-you-go statute, which requires new non-discretionary spending to be offset with spending cuts or tax increases.

This is not just my criticism of Obama but one of the main reasons why many Americans are unhappy with their government. This sort of double talk has been going on for many years now and I could fill up a book with examples like the above.